Front-End Java Developer (Futuristic Ed-Tech Company)

Job Description

We’re looking for talented people to join our digital team in Abu Dhabi.

Front End Developers are welcome to apply, salary range of $5,000 - $12,000 per month + bonus! Relocation costs as well as work visa sponsorship will be provided for Abu Dhabi.

You’ll take the lead in creating world-class digital services to transform the Education Sector.

Working closely in teams, you’ll use the latest cloud and digital technologies to make rapid and meaningful improvements. Keeping a relentless focus on user needs, you’ll make the ALEF systems easier to use and help teams do the things they need to do.

Job Description

As a ALEF front developer you'll have strong skills in web, API and want to work within multidisciplinary agile teams of developers, designers and researchers focused on products. You'll provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You'll work closely with designers to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you'll ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps.

Essential skills and experience
-Follow Clean Code/Solid principles - Uncle Bob aka Robert C Martin
-Experience building user facing web applications and detailed knowledge of Javascript, CSS and modern frontend frameworks, libraries and methodologies.
-Detailed understanding and experience of front-end web development (HTML/CSS/JS, NodeJS)
-Understanding of TDD and BDD and experience of automated testing approaches to web services
-Understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design
-Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimised/maintainable and clear code
-Experience working with UI and UX designers and translating designs to production code
-Experience of working with JavaScript libraries
-Mocking (any of the following Jasmine, Mocha)
-Build tools (Gulp, Npm, Grunt)
-NoSQL MongoDB
-Experience building server-side web applications and ensure all software built is robust and scalable
-Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behaviour and performance (any of Selenium, Geb, Wiremock, Gatling, Sauce Labs)
-An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
-Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
-Knowledge of the git version control system
-Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
-Deep knowledge of accessibility standards and developing web products that can be used easily by users with a range of assistive technology needs

Desirable
-Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity
-Act as a “frontend lead” on complex projects, providing support for product and delivery -management and pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act
-Experience mentoring or helping colleagues optimise their code
-Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
-System administration and configuration management skills
-Experience presenting work at user groups, business and to peers.
-Experience of prototyping and working closely with end users to iterate a product
-Experience of designing and consuming REST APIs
-Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites
-JVM languages (Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin etc)